My practice focuses on re-articulating the sublime in the 21st century. This re-articulation concentrates on what evokes the feeling of sublimity and finds a way to process these complex emotions of uncertainties that hold a place both in our personal lives and in a bigger construction of society.

“The Anxious sublime” is what I have named the topic of my practice. It is a way to capture the intricate emotions that swell up during this elongated moment of anticipation where one hopes for the future to arrive. The “future” that is supposed to happen. With the contemporary world overflowing with excesses of information at a digital hyperspeed, our coping mechanism is degraded, and we lose our ability to differentiate fact from fiction. The information that we access accumulates and forms a massive cloud of data, yet we still cannot find a definite answer. What is destined to occur in this ever-changing world? What is it that we are so eagerly waiting for to happen? The feelings that escalate when we encounter these questions are what I try to portray in my works.

Contradiction of control and catharsis are at the core of my painting process. While I get inspiration from the natural world, the forms that are expressed in the paintings are not focused on depicting the landscape itself, but on surpassing reality. My focus is on capturing the energy and the sublime feeling when immersed in the landscape while also attributing to the intense feelings we encompass in our daily lives. I am attending to emotions that are both pleasant and vexatious, and everything in between, all at once. Portraying these sentiments in my process, I go back and forth from recklessly pouring and throwing paint to taming and carving out forms and gestures, generating logic and its own world that articulates intense emotion. The works portray life’s intensities, from swells of romance to solitary reflection.